Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a face resembling tripe, either in paleness or sallowness, or in being flabby, baggy, and expressionless.
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Examples
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Come on; Ill tell thee what, thou damned tripe-visaged rascal, an the child I now go with do miscarry, thou hadst better thou hadst struck thy mother, thou paper-faced villain.
Act V. Scene IV. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth 1914
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Come on; I'll tell thee what, thou damned tripe-visaged rascal, and the child I now go with miscarry, thou wert better thou hadst struck thy mother, thou paper-faced villain.
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897
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Come on; I 'll tell thee what, thou damned tripe-visaged rascal, an the child I now go with do miscarry, thou wert better thou hadst struck thy mother, thou paper-faced villain.
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Come on; I ’ll tell thee what, thou damned tripe-visaged rascal, an the child I now go with do miscarry, thou wert better thou hadst struck thy mother, thou paper-faced villain.
ruzuzu commented on the word tripe-visaged
"Having a face resembling tripe, either in paleness or sallowness, or in being flabby, baggy, and expressionless."
--Century Dictionary
January 5, 2011
yarb commented on the word tripe-visaged
Why is tripe always so expressionless?
January 5, 2011
bilby commented on the word tripe-visaged
Who put the tripe in pinstriped?
January 5, 2011
qms commented on the word tripe-visaged
His face was of a type privileged
To be by the great bard ripe-imaged
It's sagging and sallow,
Twixt mucus and tallow,
Immortalized now as tripe-visaged.
N. B.: So far as I can tell this word has been used in earnest precisely once. All other instances are quotation of that passage in Henry IV, Part 2.
June 14, 2017